W. P. Herbert Co. v. Powell

The action upon which this appeal is based was for alleged damages which resulted to plaintiff from an alleged conversion by defendants of an automobile of which plaintiff claimed to be the owner. The facts necessary to a determination of the controversy are as follows: The defendant H. A. Sellers Company was the owner of an automobile which, on a conditional-sale contract, it sold to one N. E. Whittemore. By the terms of the contract between the parties, until the entire purchase price of the automobile should be paid, the legal title to the automobile was to remain in the Sellers Company.…